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Brexit Negotiations: The Three Sticking Points

17 Nov 2017

I’ve been listening to a whole lot of Brexit lectures from the LSE (it seems that Brexit-related lectures take place every second day on the campus). In case you’re not up to date, there are three main issues that need to be ‘finalised’ so that the Brexit negotiations can move onto ‘the next phase’. I gather that the next phase involves being able to discuss free trade, Britain’s future relationship with the EU and (most importantly) whether London can still be the finance capital of the world.

But the EU won’t discuss that until:

Everyone has decided what to do with their citizens;

Britain has agreed to pay the EU what it owes; and

There’s an agreement on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.